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3812 1 (1898-1899)

handle is hein.usccsset/usconset32750 and id is 1 raw text is: 55TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. DOCUMENT 3d Session. No. 163. PUBLIC BUILDING AT CHEYENNE, WYO. LETTER FROM THE ACTING SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, TRANSMIlTING A COMMUNICATION FROM THE SUPERVISING ARCHITECT OF THE TREASURY SUBMITTING AN ESTIMATE OF A FURTHER APPROPRIATION FOR THE PUBLIC BUILDING AT CHEYENNE, WYO. JANUAitY 20, 1899.-Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, Washington, D. C., January 19, 1899. SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, copy of a communication from the Supervising Architect of the 17th instant, submitting an estimate for a further appropriation of $25,000 for the public building at Cheyenne, Wyo. Respectfully, yours, 0. L. SPAULDING, Acting Secretary. The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SUPERVISING ARCHITECT, Washington, D. C., January 17, 1899. SIR: Your attention is respectfully called to the fact that after the excavation was done under the contract for excavation, grading, con- crete foundations, stone footings, brick work and cut-stone work of basement and area walls, etc., of the public building at Cheyenne, Wyo., it was discovered that the condition of the stratum encountered was such as to render it inexpedient to place the foundations designed thereon, a material being encountered which, uncovered and coming in contact with water, became particularly soft, a condition which the ordinary tests applied to foundations before excavation would not reveal. After a very careful study of the problem it was decided to place sub- H1. Doc. 7O- I

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